Towards multi-arch: "Multi-Arch: same" file conflicts

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

If a package is marked as "Multi-Arch: same", files with the same name 
have to be (byte-to-byte) identical across all architectures.  
Unfortunately, not all packages obey this requirement. I set up a page 
to track violators:

http://people.debian.org/~jwilk/multi-arch/same-md5sums.txt
http://people.debian.org/~jwilk/multi-arch/same-md5sums.ddlist

(If there is no MD5 sum information next to a file name, it means that 
the sum for each architecture was different.)

The most common reasons for cross-architecture differences appear to be 
(in random order):
- A bug in gzip that makes it output non-deterministic (#647522).
- Using gzip without the -n option.
- Compiling GNU message catalogs with gettext, which uses native 
endianness (see bug #468209).
- Including /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/* stuff in -dbg package.
- Using lintian overrides with arch-specific paths inside.
- BinNMUs (see <http://deb.li/CHYh>).

Have fun fixing your packages. :-) The tracker is updated twice a day.

--
Jakub Wilk